An artist whose work evokes both memory and the "gaps, sinkholes, and other chasms" found in our experiences, Gael Stack is one of the most accomplished American painters working today. Her large canvases and smaller drawings use fragments of words and images, often layered over one another like a palimpsest, to create a visual language that explores the past's implacable hold on the present, with what is unknown and unspoken occasionally poking through. Serendipitous elements of graciousness and optimism also distinguish her recent work.
Gael Stack is the first retrospective monograph on the artist's career, which has spanned four decades. It features a catalog of some one hundred works reproduced in full-color, full-page plates. Accompanying the images are essays by Raphael Rubinstein and Alison de Lima Greene, who discuss Stack's work in the context of world art. Rubinstein likens her paintings to Freud's "mystic writing-pad," a surface layer that can be endlessly written upon, erased, and refilled, while the underlying tablet retains traces of all that has been written—an apt metaphor for the workings of perception and memory. Greene also reflects on the theme of memory in Stack's art, particularly the ways in which memory can evolve into forgetfulness and cognizance can become ignorance. Lists of selected exhibitions and public collections in which her work has been featured and a bibliography complete this authoritative survey of Stack's career.

Gael Stack (M. Georgia Hegarty Dunkerley Contemporary Art Series)

Arts & Photography

Rubinstein, Raphaël

Stack, Gael

Greene, Alison De Lima

History & Criticism

University of Texas Press

Poetry. Raphael Rubinstein's THE AFTERGLOW OF MINOR POP MASTERPIECES, a collection of constraint-based poems is the first in a series of ten perfect bound, chapbook length books from Make Now Press, printed in a limited edition of 330.

The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Make Now Press

This monograph celebrates the Waterfall paintings of Pat Steir (born 1940), begun in 1989. Steir pours a mixture of pigment, oil and turpentine down a vertical canvas and waits for it to coalesce between layers, resulting in stratified compositions and overlapping color.

Pat Steir

Individual Artists

Cheim & Read

Review\n“Developed over several years in a series of provocative and convincing essays, Raphael Rubinstein's concept of provisionality in art encompasses a wide swath of U.S. and European artists who have been redefining painting. Philosophers, theorists and other critics are heard from, too. It's a terrific book.” ―Elizabeth C. Baker, Editor-at-Large, Art in America, USA\nIn his influential essay “Provisional Painting,” Raphael Rubinstein applied the term “provisional” to contemporary painters whose work looked intentionally casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished or self-cancelling; who appeared to have deliberately turned away from "strong" painting for something that seemed to constantly risk failure or inconsequence.\nIn this collection of essays, Rubinstein expands the scope of his original article by surveying the historical and philosophical underpinnings of provisionality in recent visual art, as well as examining the works of individual artists in detail. He also engages crucial texts by Samuel Beckett and philosopher Gianni Vattimo.\nRe-examining several decades of painting practices, Rubinstein argues that provisionality, in all its many forms, has been both a foundational element in the history of modern art and the encapsulation of an attitude that is profoundly contemporary.

Turn to Provisionality in Contemporary Art, The: Negative Work (Aesthetics and Contemporary Art)

Bloomsbury Academic

<div>This book presents a detailed account of Guillermo Kuitca's major bodies of work, analyzing his diverse range of imagery and reflecting on his engagement with the spaces in which we live. Following Kuitca's development from the 1980's to his latest body of work, the narrative reveals an artist who has continually challenged himself and his audience with new kinds of painterly language. In Kuitca's hands, everyday visual material such as road maps, street plans, architectural blueprints, and theatre seating charts are transformed into innovative paintings that engage with dark subjects such as the Holocaust and Argentina's "Dirty War." Drawing on conversations and studio visits the author has had with the artist, Guillermo Kuitca reveals the multifarious elements of a challenging and exciting body of work. It is essential reading for anyone fascinated by this truly original artist.</div>

Guillermo Kuitca (Contemporary Painters Series)

Lund Humphries

This volume will give readers a full picture of current debate about the nature of art criticism, a debate that has become as heated and questioning as the discourse on contemporary art in general.

Critical Mess: Art Critics on the State of their Practice

Hard Press Editions Dist A/C

Color field art covers more acreage than you might expect. In this major reappraisal cataloguing an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the definition is extended to include both contemporaneous works in media other than painting and recent iterations by younger artists. Thus, artists more often deemed Minimalist, such as Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Fred Sandback and Robert Irwin, are seen as responding to ambitions expressed in color field painting, and contemporary works, such as those by Peter Halley and Polly Apfelbaum, resonate from proximity to masterworks from an earlier generation. Apfelbaum's Gun Club from 2002, for example, dances meaningfully with Helen Frankenthaler's Tutti Fruitti, 1966. In addition, you'll see how Morris Louis, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery and Frank Stella can play on the same field with Odili Donald Odita, Christian Eckert and Charles Long with Stereolab. Curator David Moos and other leading scholars in the field, Sarah K. Rich and Robert Hobbs among them, add insightful commentary.

The Shape Of Color: Excursions In Color Field Art, 1950-2005

Hobbs, Robert

Moos, David

Cheetham, Mark

Rich, Sarah

Eckart, Christian

Art Gallery of Ontario

Product description\nParmi les artistes amricains expatris Paris aprs-guerre, la peintre Shirley Jaffe a su se forger un langage pictural propre mondialement reconnu. Dans cette premire monographie consacre son oeuvre, le critique new-yorkais Raphael Rubinstein retrace son volution artistique, caractrise par son rejet de l'abstraction gestuelle en faveur d'une approche mettant dlibrment l'accent sur la forme et la couleur. Puisant son inspiration dans les mandres urbains de Paris et New York, Shirley Jaffe continue d'blouir le spectateur avec des peintures exubrantes et complexes clbrant la pluralit visuelle et une potique de la prcision.\nFrom the Back Cover\nParmi les artistes américains expatriés à Paris après-guerre, la peintre Shirley Jaffe a su se forger un langage pictural propre mondialement reconnu. Dans cette première monographie consacrée à son oeuvre, le critique new-yorkais Raphael Rubinstein retrace son évolution artistique, caractérisée par son rejet de l'abstraction gestuelle en faveur d'une approche mettant délibérément l'accent sur la forme et la couleur. Puisant son inspiration dans les méandres urbains de Paris et New York, Shirley Jaffe continue d'éblouir le spectateur avec des peintures exubérantes et complexes célébrant la pluralité visuelle et une poétique de la précision. Emerging from the milieu of expatriate American artists in postwar Paris, painter Shirley Jaffe forged a distinctive pictorial language that has gained international recognition. In the first monograph to cover her career, New York critic Raphael Rubinstein traces Jaffe's development as a painter who rejected gestural abstraction in favor of a more deliberative approach emphasizing shape and color. Inspired by the urban textures of Paris and New York, Jaffe continues to dazzle viewers with complex, exuberant paintings that celebrate visual multiplicity and the poetics of precision.

Shirley Jaffe: Les formes de la dislocation (French and English Edition)

Flammarion

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